VR Hack

Other World

"I'll kill her!"

I skidded to a halt.

He had her by the neck. His knuckles were white. Fingers gripped vice like to throat. She was at arms length dangling over the precipice. One of her heels had slipped off. Soon lack of oxygen would stave her brain. Although it'd be the fall that killed her. No one survived a drop from a skyscraper in RL or in VR.

I pulled my gun and aimed it at his head. It felt heavy and clammy in my hand. I was also panting hard from the run up the stairs but managed to force a laugh: "Drop her then! She means nothing! Absolutely nothing to me!"

He was surprised and blinked:" Why have you got your gun aimed at my head?"

I didn't answer.

Electric blue rippled across the under belly of the sky. A thunder clap quickly followed.

But the gamble paid off. He swung her round and flung her down onto the skylight.  There was the creak and crack of glass. Her chance of life  had improved. Now all I had to worry about was her being cut to pieces by glass and of course breaking her neck. I prayed that there was a bed or indoor pool below to break her fall.

Gideon pulled his nickel plated revolver from his should holster and levelled it at me. He was vain. Especially when it came to pretty weapons, clothes and women. The wind streamed about him lifting his hair and expensive fur coat. His feet were planted firmly on the parapet.

He smiled his gap toothed smile: "Is it the man driving the man or the woman driving the man? Is it you Harper inside that body?" It sounds like a riddle right. But I knew what he meant.

"Gideon its me!" I laid my weapon on the ground and kicked it away. I smiled at him revealing a mixture of teeth; white and gold: "It's me look I've put down my weapon in a sign of good faith. I have to admit you got me beat."

"Harper I love you but you're lying! That smile is so fake! There's no love in your eyes. Just hate! Hate at what I've become and about to do!" He levelled his gun at Scarlet.

"Hey!" I shouted. "We're connected we're blood! Try to remember our RL!"

His smile and lowered the weapon. "Yeah Harp. We had some really sick times on tequila and we shared a hard experience our old man and Mom. Not happy days. But we had each other. However, we ain't blood any more. Electrons flow through my veins. VR has changed everything. Here we rein as Gods! I can build a future I'd never had in RL."

"That's insane! You still need to go to the can like the rest of us Gideon! Enter and exit VR! And when I find you I'm going to..."

Scarlet twisted on her side. Where had she got that?! She held a semi-automatic in her hand. It was shaking. The mussel flash lit up her beautiful features. Her hand snapped back in time to the percussion of the bullets. But it was too late. Gideon had dissolved into winking pixelation. Then there was nothing.

Next there was a loud crack and she dropped through the skylight.

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